picket house

Noun

picket-house (plural picket-houses)

1. A wooden building made by fitting boards across a framework of upright poles, often constructed as part of an outpost or as the first shelter in a new homestead.
   • Ever since the month of February 1810 (exactly one year), we had been constantly so near the enemy at the advanced posts, sleeping in our clothes, in bivouac, or in some hovel of a picket-house, rolled up in our cloaks on the ground, that I felt quite like a fish out of water, and was not...2010, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Leach C.B., Rough Sketches Of Life Of An Old Soldier